Re: Mozilla Very Very slow in rendering

["Christopher L. Everett" <ceverett@ceverett.com>]

Bruce Banner wrote:

> You might want to check your harddrive dma settings. 
> If your harddrive is set to pio then your cpu will
> have to do the disk i/o instead of letting the chipset
> do it.  The symptoms are when you are downloading
> anything 
> your machine will slow to a crawl.  You can check with
> hdparm -I /dev/hda and you can set it with hdparm -d1
> /dev/hda.  This is a long shot but I have seen this
> before.
>
>  
hdparm shows me using udma5.  Thanks though.